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Students need to feel safe going to learn every day. The answer is not more guns(arming teachers), but no guns at all.
Our right to survive a schoolday severely outweighs their 2nd amendment rights. The ability to purchase and retain ownership of a gun is entirely too easy in this country.
That needs to change.
Thank you, Parkland students for doing what you're doing. We support you.
Please sign this petition from change.org so we can aid in a better future for the students of today and tomorrow.

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This debut album from The Academic just turned a month old today!
It's super fantastic and I highly recommend you give it a listen along with their other songs, my personal favorites: Different, Mixtape 2003.
The Academic will be performing at Mercury Lounge in NYC this Thursday 2/15, I'm hoping I can go.

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It's hard to say what will happen. The net neutrality battle boils down to network owners (Verizon, Comcast etc) vs content providers-- particularly video content providers (Facebook, Netflix, Google etc). Net neutrality was how the internet was treated initially (before the ruling in 2015) to support content development when the internet was young. Efforts to pass a law mandating net neutrality failed in the mid 2000's. The FCC ruling in 2015 continued the net neutrality policy by defining internet networks as "common carriers", which is what trains and airlines are considered. Trains and planes must transport anyone who pays for a ticket without discrimination. The idea was that information should "travel" without discrimination too. The network owners were furious in 2015. Building and maintaining networks is expensive, and as video content grows, faster networks are required, but the network owner couldn't pass those costs on to the big bandwidth users (Netflix, youtube, pornhub etc) because they weren't allowed to differentiate between traffic. Smaller website owners are (correctly) concerned that their access to the internet may be affected, but the first targets will be the video hubs. The largest ones have the cash (and in many cases are already paying more to get faster speeds) but newer, up and coming sites won't have ready capital to pay for faster service. The current head of the FCC is a former Verizon executive who delivered to his former bosses the win they wanted. Supposedly ending net neutrality will lead to greater investment in faster infrastructure, but I'll believe that when I see it. The next step will be in the courts as multiple lawsuits blocking the ruling have been filed.